Mibosport Cup Winter series – Announcement

Mibosport announce the 2013/14 season of their popular Winter Series. Attracting 283 drivers in total including Ronald Völker, Martin Bayer, Zdenko Kunák, Martin Hudy and Marek Černý during last year’s series, the upcoming races will again be held in the city of Hrotovice, host of the ETS, EOS and European Indoor Championships. The series is run in Touring Car Modified and Stock, Stock LRP, Formula 1, Yokomo GT and 2WD and 4WD Buggy. The season will kick off on the weekend of the 19th of October with Marc Rheinard and Ronald Völker attending as special guests. More information and registration for all rounds can be found here.

Garcia & Eres win Spanish Federation touring car titles

The last round of the Spanish Federation national championship took place at the Amsa track in Barcelona. Run in Modified and Stock touring car the race saw a good turnout of racers who suffered from unstable weather conditions. In the end it was Gonzalo Garcia (Serpent) who took the winning honours in the Stock class followed by Tony Mur (Xray) and Roger Sancho (Yokomo). With the win Gonzalo also secured himself the 2013 Stock championship title in front of Vicente Eres (VBC) and Roger Sancho. In the Modified category Carlos Ferrando (Tamiya) secured the day’s win in front of Vincente Eres (VBC) and Raul Sancho (Schumacher). The second place was good enough for Vincente to grab the 2013 Modified title in front of Raul Sancho and Carlos Ferrando.

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Akio Sobue wins Speed King Tour East 2013 Rd3

The third round of the Kazuki Endo presented Speed King Tour East 2013 took place at the world famous Yatabe Arena in Japan. The meeting was held in Modified TC, Stock TC, JMRCA TC and Yokomo GT500 classes and it was young Yokomo driver Yugo Nagashima who won the 2nd round of the series and took TQ again in the modified TC class of round 3. TRF driver Akio Sobue captured the second spot after qualifying and Hayato Ishioka held the 3rd place with his Kyosho TF6SP. Making use of the usual ‘first corner chaos’ in the Modified A final Akio moved up to the first spot while Yugo lost a lot of positions. Yugo though recovered during the 5 minute run but was not able to catch Akio who took the winning honours with his TRF418 prototype. Yugo finished second, Kiyoto Kanno completed the podium. When it comes to the overall championship Yugo kept his top position after round 3 going into the series final that will take place at the Crest Speedway on the first weekend of November.

Source: Speed King Tour [speed-king-tour.blogspot.jp]

Cerny & Nemcek win Czech touring car nationals

Last weekend the Czech Championship was held in Slavkov u Brna on a very fast high grip track. Saturday saw five qualifiers with the first heat of the Modified class being TQ’d by David Nemcek followed by a clean sweep of Marek Cerny who took the remaining four qualifying rounds. The young man was able to conserve his performance for the finals where he went on to win the first two legs in order to secure the 2013 title early with one A main to go. The second place and vice championship went to David Nemcek with Jaroslv Kopecky taking the last remaining podium spot. Elsewhere in the Stock class David Nemcek took the win and 2013 title after a hard fight with Pavel Martinec.

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Kevin Pignotti wins Modified at Italian nationals

The Italian electric on-road nationals was held at the Gubbio track last weekend. This year the championship would be decided in a single event with about 100 participants. The race started with practice sessions on Friday followed by two timed practice sessions and three of five qualifiers on Saturday with the remaining qualifying heats and finals on Sunday. In qualifying Francesco Martini (Xray) took the overall TQ followed by Alessandro Brunelli (Serpent), Kevin Pignotti (Associated) and Diego Macchioni (Xray). A main number 1 had Alessandro Brunelli taking the win in front of top qualifier Francesco Martini while disaster struck for both drivers in leg number two when they had a coming together resulting in 7th and 8th place finishes gifting Diego Macchioni the win from Kevin Pignotti. In the last A main both Francesco and Alessandro again had average runs meaning they would not be able to fight for the title. Kevin Pignotti took the win from Alessandro and Diego handing Kevin the overall win and the 2013 Modified class title. Alessandro was able to take the runner-up spot with Diego Macchioni ending up in third place overall.

Source: Serpent [serpent.com]